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单词 to betake to one's heels
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to betake (oneself) to one's heels
(b) to take to one's heels: to run away, to flee. Formerly also †to take oneself to one's heels, †to betake (oneself) to one's heels.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee
fleec825
afleeeOE
atrina1000
atfleec1000
to run awayOE
to turn to or into flighta1225
to turn the ridgec1225
atrenc1275
atshakec1275
to give backa1300
flemec1300
startc1330
to take (on oneself) the flighta1500
to take the back upon oneselfa1500
fly1523
to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530
to flee one's way1535
to take to one's heels1548
flought?1567
fuge1573
to turn taila1586
to run off1628
to take flighta1639
refugea1641
to run for it1642
to take leg1740
to give (also take) leg-bail1751
bail1775
sherry1788
to pull foot1792
fugitate1830
to tail off (out)1830
to take to flight1840
to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845
guy1879
to give leg (or legs)1883
rabbit1887
to do a guy1889
high-tail1908
to have it on one's toes1958
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlix So deceauyng his kepers [he] toke him to his heeles.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H4 They..betake them to their heeles as to their best refuge.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. 208 Some of those that were furthest off, being scared out of their couches, not knowing what violence or from whence it was, tooke to their heels and fled.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. i. iv. 7 The Tartars..as soon as they..find the Poles advancing, betake themselves to their heels.
1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XIII. xvi. i. 511 The greater part took themselves to their heels, and fled into the high mountains of Judea.
1764 Oxf. Sausage 116 At length the suspicion fell thick on poor Tray, Till he took to his heels and with speed ran away.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vii. viii. 240 The rabble incontinently took to their heels.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 93 The beholders would have..taken to their heels and run for their lives.
1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 129 I laid about me with the folded Billboard to such effect that the blackguards took to their heels, howling with pain.
1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 18 Oct. 4/4 When the thugs discovered that the vehicle was carrying a dead body, they abandoned it and took to their heels.
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